Home to Oregon and then Philly
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »I had an unexpected call from my sister Sunday saying that my father (photo above of Mom and Dad a year ago) was not doing very well. He had been in hospital for several days with congestive heart failure, but ...
Vegetable paintings
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »[gallery] What I really needed was practice painting, so I began this series of vegetable and fruit paintings. They were set up as still lifes in a corner of my studio where the horizontal window panes cast shadows onto the table. ...
Peanut Pet Shelter in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »Andy and Jenn, a British couple, have established a pet shelter at their home across the highway in Playa del Carmen called the Peanut Pet Shelter. They take in dogs that have been abandoned on the streets, rescue dogs from ...
Grocery Shopping in Mexico
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »We have just returned from grocery shopping, a semi-weekly event, walking together to the market and lugging home plastic bags that cut off the circulation to our fingers. I wanted to share the prices with those of you in the ...
Xpu Ha for music, the beach and Tai Chi
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »Sunday, June 8, with a very, very grey sky, we took a colectivo south about 20 minutes from Playa del Carmen to Xpu Ha. None of the six of us had been there before, so when the driver dropped us ...
Hand Paintings
Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »In September, 2007 I really began missing working clay with my hands and started this series about my hands and how important they are. These paintings are larger, 22" X 14", also oil on gessoed water color paper. By then ...
Gallery of Early Paintings in Mexico
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »I am a little humble about showing my fledgling paintings done during the first few weeks here in Mexico last summer, but here goes. I started with impressions of the lush foliage that is almost everywhere. These are all oil ...
Yoga and Tai Chi in Paradise
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »Just before we went back to Philly for New Years, I met a Canadian woman, Susan. She is about my age and told me she was practicing yoga and Tai Chi here in Playa del Carmen. When I returned, I ...
Mayan Ceremony
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »It has finally begun to rain here. Having grown up on the Oregon coast, where it rained almost continually, I never thought I would be so happy to feel rain on my face. The parks were parched, the streets had ...